What happened in adana in april 1909? Conflicting armenian and turkish views

Preface 1. Turco-Armenian controversy and conspiracy theories Conspiracy Theories on the Adana Incident: Prototypes - Rehashed Theo-ries: The Armenian Version - Rehashed Theories: The Turkish Version - A Disputable Document: the "Report" of Agop Babikyan - A Disputable Documents: The Memoirs of Mehmed Asaf. 2. The Adana province dur-ing the nineteenth century The Land of Derebeys - The 'Reform Division' and the Beginning of the Centralized Administration - Cotton Export and the Development of Agrarian Economy - Massive Colonization during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Land Accumulation - Emergence of New Local Bosses: The Ağas - The Plight of Muslim Peasants - A Multi-Ethnic Society and the Ethnic Division of Labour - Turco-Armenian Rela-tions 3. The Young Turk revolution and its impact on the Adana province CUP Takeover of Power and its Weakness - Ambivalent Charac-ters of the CUP Adana Branch - The New Provincial Government - Anti-CUP Sentiment among the Muslims - Struggle between the Pro- and Anti-Cevad blocks - Muslim-Armenian Tensions after the Revolution - The Smuggling of fire arms - Armenian cultural activities and their side-effects. 4. A hidden agenda: Demographic warfare and land disputes Arme-nian Nationalism and the Muslim reaction - Demographic dimension - Rising tension in communal relations - Repeated dispute over the Taylan Çiftliği - New Demographic Pressure after the Young Turk Revolution - Dispute over the Armenian land ownership after the Revolution - The re-percussions of the land dispute over Armeno-Muslim relations. 5. The April incidents in Adana The Hovannes Affair and the Excitement of the Muslim Population - The Outbreak of Hostilities - Defence of the Arme-nians - Muslim Mob - How the Provincial Government Reacted - The End of the Initial Hostilities and an Interlude - The Second Incident. 6. Riots and massacres in the countryside The Hamidiye Incident - The Tarsus Inferno - The Attack of Kozoluk - The Disturbance in the Cebel-i Bereket - The retreat of the Hasanbeyli Armenians - The siege of Dörtyol - The Ko-zan Prefecture. 7. The aftermath The Casualties - The Relief and Recon-struction Works - A Farewell to Conspiracy Theories. Bibliography